Brian Ward Memorial Lecture

The Brian Ward Memorial Lecture is a series of lectures to honor the memory of Brian Ward, the founding father of ADPC, for his great wisdom and outstanding personal dedication and commitment to the field of disaster risk reduction.

This annual lecture series would be a platform for distinguished guest lecturers to share their experiences that would contribute to innovative initiatives on disaster risk reduction in the Asia and Pacific region. The invited guest lecturers would be leading practitioners and decision makers in their respective sub-themes under the overall DRR theme, who are able to articulate their experience and provide insights and useful ideas on the future of DRR in Asia and the Pacific.

The guest lecturers would represent International development partners, development banks, International non-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, institutions and technical societies. The language would be in English. This is the inaugural lecture to celebrate ADPC’s 25th anniversary and would be an annual feature in the ADPC calendar held during the RCC Meetings.

We are happy to announce that the first Brian Ward Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Ms. Margareta Walström, Assistant Secretary-General and UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction on 24th March 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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